Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM (EST)

In a new Spin interview, metal legends Metallica talk a little about their next album and follow up to 2008's well-recieved Death Magnetic. For one thing, the band is label-free for the first time, having been with Warner Music Group or their Elektra imprint since the joined Elektra for 1986's Master of Puppets. Drummer Lars Ulrich commented on that saying:

We're free and clear of our record contract. The world's our oyster. We can basically do whatever we want. And we're going to start figuring that out. We're writing music and we're going to be recording very soon. At some point we're going to want to share that with people that are interested in listening to it. So we gotta figure out ways we want to do that, from giving it away in cereal boxes to getting people to do handstands for it. We could come up with something wacky.

This whole thing about who can come up with the coolest [release strategy] so it can be written about on 12 different blogs for six hours -- I mean sure, that's all pretty cool and hip, but at the same time you have to remember we have a very global audience. We have fans in India and the U.A.E. and Russia. In a lot of these places there are still more conventional ways of getting music to people. We're not just selling Metallica music to people in Los Angeles, New York, and London. We have to think of the whole globe to try to find the right balance.

I read an interview with Kirk not too long ago, though, where they said the next album wasn't gonna be like DM but more back to their 90's style of shorter, straight forward songs. I guess they didn't like everyone telling them they made a good record finally.

Death Magnetic would have benefited from the songs being shorter. There were some good ideas there, some good throwbacks to "old Metallica" even if the lyrics were, uh, questionable, but it never felt like there was enough going on in any song to justify the length and the songs felt like they wore out their welcome before they were over. So to hear that they're going to write shorter songs isn't bad news to me, but it depends entirely on what they're doing within those 3-5 minutes. The problem with Black/Load/Re-Load wasn't that the songs were shorter than the old stuff (some of them were pretty long), but that they were fucking boring.

These guys cant utter a sentence without comin off like D-bags, I swear. Been that way for years.
That said I dug DM. Rick Rubin, FTW.
Also, that festival they have coming up has themed "attractions" based on stuff they dig..I wonder what Kirk's will be? Nascar? Bodybuilding? Football? Something manly?.......................................?
I'm really trying to be nice here......but he is so, so gay that it's painful.